Old Bryant-Link Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Jones County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Old Bryant--Link Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 120 S. Swenson, Stamford, 79553
When was it listed? September 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Stamford MRA
Census division. Stamford
Architectural style. Mission Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 86002361 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

39 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Old Bryant-Link Building between 2006 and 2015, burning about 164 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
6 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
27 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
26 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	W GOULD
25 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named
14 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Texas A & M Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this property

60 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stamford, the town this property stands in, in 87 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 64 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 1997	Hail	Stamford	$100,000	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Stamford	$30,000	no account filed
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	$10,000	Trees and power lines down.
May 2004	Hail	Stamford	$8,000	Golfball size hail was reported in Stamford for about 10 minutes. Only some minor damage was noted.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	$8,000	Roof was blown off of a house.
May 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	$5,000	Power lines were blown down by thunderstorm winds.
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	We received photos of wind damage to St Ann Catholic Church at the intersection of New Braunfels St and New Hope Rd.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	A storm chaser estimated 80 mph winds.
May 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Stamford	-	A storm chaser reported a brief tornado touchdown.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	TDEM CLO reported trees blown down on the south side of Stamford.
April 2025	Hail	Stamford	-	Public reported half dollar size hail.
April 2025	Hail	Stamford	-	Public reported golf ball size hail.
April 2025	Hail	Stamford	-	The public reported quarter size hail.
April 2024	Hail	Stamford	-	Trained spotter reported quarter size hail.
May 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	Law Enforcement reported golf ball size hail in Stamford. Time estimated from radar.
June 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	A trained spotter called in ping pong ball size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	A trained spotter called in golf ball size hail.
June 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	The public reported slightly smaller than grapefruit size hail 3 miles southwest of Stamford along US highway 277.
May 2022	Hail	Stamford	-	The public reported lots of quarter size hail with some golf ball size hail.
May 2021	Hail	Stamford	-	The public using Mping reported 0.75 inch hail just southeast of Stamford.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	The Stamford Mesonet measured a wind gust of 65 mph.
May 2019	Hail	Stamford	-	A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail 2 miles west-northwest of Stamford.
March 2018	Hail	Stamford	-	A trained spotter reported pea to quarter size hail in Stamford.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	The Jones County Emergency Manager reported a sign and power pole down.
April 2016	Hail	Stamford	-	Law Enforcement reported half dollar size hail about a mile west southwest of Stamford.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	Law enforcement estimated a thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph about 1.35 miles west-southwest of Stamford.
April 2015	Flood	Stamford	-	The broadcast media reported roads flooded in Stamford.
May 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	The public estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm wind gust about 1.4 miles west southwest of Stamford.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	A wind gust of 60 mph was reported on County Road 142 about a mile east of Stamford.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	Part of a roof was damaged by the straight line winds in Stamford.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	Law enforcement reported a roof blown off a barn.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	Power poles were downed and roof damage was also reported in town.
June 2002	Tornado (F0)	Stamford	-	Storm Spotters continued to track the tornado from Haskell County into northern Jones County.
October 2001	Hail	Stamford	-	Golf ball size hail.
April 2000	Hail	Stamford	-	Baseball size hail.
April 2000	Hail	Stamford	-	Hail larger than baseballs pounded the town of Stamford.
May 1999	Hail	Stamford	-	Baseball size hail.
May 1993	Hail	Stamford	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
May 1993	Hail	Stamford	-	Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.
February 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2021	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
March 2018	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2018	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
April 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
May 2015	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Stamford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jones County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Old Penick-Hughes Company	under 500 feet	1986
US Post Office	under 500 feet	1986
SMS Building	0.1 miles	1986
Old West Texas Utilities Company	0.1 miles	1986
A. J. Jackson House	0.1 miles	1986
Stamford City Hall	0.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002361 in Record Group 79.
Jones County	All 22 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.